Your rants here.

asprilla

Locker has been broken for a while but a lot of them are so no-one bothers. On Wednesday I email facilities to complain that the planned clean out of the locker room at the end of Feb didn't happen and I also take the opportunity to report my locker is broken.

Radio silence.

Arrive at work this morning and my locker is locked, but not with my code. An hour and 15 minutes it takes to locate someone who should be able to open it. Except he can't. He keeps pointing a remote control at my locker despite me telling him that those are for the gym lockers and the cyclist lockers use master code you punch in.

Eventually another passing cyclist enters the secret master code for us. Apparently it's not that secret.

It's scare what this company could achieve if it were competent.

tangled_metal

Lockers? You mean corner of the office don't you? We don't have them for office staff. So i hope they enjoy my sweaty cycling kit!

rick_chasey

Try drying 'em out under your desk.

tangled_metal

Rick Chasey wrote:

Try drying 'em out under your desk.

My preference is hanging over the coat stand with a heater right next to it. Convection is strong there judging by the heady aromas wafting around the office. I wonder why nobody else uses that coat stand?

asprilla

Tangled Metal wrote:

Lockers? You mean corner of the office don't you? We don't have them for office staff. So i hope they enjoy my sweaty cycling kit!

Oh, lockers aren't for cycling kit. We have drying rooms for that. Lockers are for the clothes I want to wear at work

I have a separate rant about drying rooms involving the folks who think that hanging space in there is an extension of their wardrobe and should be used for all their shirts and suits that the dry cleaner has delivered back to them. There is a special place in hell for them. It's all wrapped in plastic too so it's not like hanging your wet kit next to them is a deterrent.

kingstongraham

Asprilla wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

Lockers? You mean corner of the office don't you? We don't have them for office staff. So i hope they enjoy my sweaty cycling kit!

Oh, lockers aren't for cycling kit. We have drying rooms for that. Lockers are for the clothes I want to wear at work

I have a separate rant about drying rooms involving the folks who think that hanging space in there is an extension of their wardrobe and should be used for all their shirts and suits that the dry cleaner has delivered back to them. There is a special place in hell for them. It's all wrapped in plastic too so it's not like hanging your wet kit next to them is a deterrent.

You have a drying room and lockers, and still find something to rant about. Respect.

I'm expecting a rant from someone in real life sometime about the shirts and suits I keep in the coat cupboard because it's the only place. Made it through another winter, so should be OK for a few months.

bendertherobot

Garmin.

The Fenix will be available Q1 2017.

Yes, we know, you've said that since January.

So, given there are only 11 days left of it, and it's apparently in stock in many other places, when do you suspect you will put it on site.

Q1 2017.................

asprilla

KingstonGraham wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

Lockers? You mean corner of the office don't you? We don't have them for office staff. So i hope they enjoy my sweaty cycling kit!

Oh, lockers aren't for cycling kit. We have drying rooms for that. Lockers are for the clothes I want to wear at work

I have a separate rant about drying rooms involving the folks who think that hanging space in there is an extension of their wardrobe and should be used for all their shirts and suits that the dry cleaner has delivered back to them. There is a special place in hell for them. It's all wrapped in plastic too so it's not like hanging your wet kit next to them is a deterrent.

You have a drying room and lockers, and still find something to rant about. Respect.

I'm expecting a rant from someone in real life sometime about the shirts and suits I keep in the coat cupboard because it's the only place. Made it through another winter, so should be OK for a few months.

But that's the point. We have a drying room, and we are lucky that we do, but because of some selfish individuals (who do have lockers they could use) there is nowhere to hang wet kit. This is absolutely worth ranting about.

It's like having bike stands but folks using them as long term bike storage so regular users can't actually lock their bikes up.

It's like raaaaiinn on your wedding day or a free ride when you've already paid.

tangled_metal

Can't you somehow hang wet clothes over the top of their dry cleaned shirts? Can't be a good drying room if a few shirts fills it up. Complain about your inadequate facilities if I were you. Perhaps the guy got locked out of his lockers? I'll lend you my coat stand and heater. Bike is out of action so I won't be needing it for a while.

slowbike

OT rant ....

Can we have a meeting with XYZ - I've had to ask because you're not always the most approachable ... erm I get pretty much constant interuption, so I can't be that unapproachable ...

then

One of the attendies can't be at the meeting because he doesn't work here - how can we get him here? ... er - Tried a speakerphone?

Do people actually think before they ask?

Ok - one on-topic rant ...

Local cycling ride - takes a group of low experience riders down a normally busy road on the weekend of a local "hot wheels" car meet and wonders why they get nearly taken out by some idiot at double the speed limit whilst they're trying to turn right in a blind dip ... Ok, the driver shouldn't have been an idiot - but there were plenty of options for the cycle ride that would've avoided known dodgy roads whilst this well publicised event is on.

asprilla

Tangled Metal wrote:

Can't you somehow hang wet clothes over the top of their dry cleaned shirts? Can't be a good drying room if a few shirts fills it up. Complain about your inadequate facilities if I were you. Perhaps the guy got locked out of his lockers? I'll lend you my coat stand and heater. Bike is out of action so I won't be needing it for a while.

8000 people in site, high percentage of cyclists and the biggest corporate gym in the M25 puts a lot of demand on changing rooms and drying space. Say 50 people with 5 shirts and a suit plus a build up of abandoned kit and pretty soon you are creating a bottleneck that need not be there.

Sorry if that doesn't meet your criteria for ranting.

wolfsbane2k

Asprilla wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

Can't you somehow hang wet clothes over the top of their dry cleaned shirts? Can't be a good drying room if a few shirts fills it up. Complain about your inadequate facilities if I were you. Perhaps the guy got locked out of his lockers? I'll lend you my coat stand and heater. Bike is out of action so I won't be needing it for a while.

8000 people in site, high percentage of cyclists and the biggest corporate gym in the M25 puts a lot of demand on changing rooms and drying space. Say 50 people with 5 shirts and a suit plus a build up of abandoned kit and pretty soon you are creating a bottleneck that need not be there.

Sorry if that doesn't meet your criteria for ranting.

Crab pate.

Someone did that at the last work place, the message finally got out.

I managed to get my place of work to buy two new racks to supplant the 1 they had, because of this problem.
Of course, the dry stuff instantly doubled, until it ended up on the floor after a particular moonsoon....

tangled_metal

8000 people on site? That's reason enough for a rant IMHO. There's only 230 people working on our whole industrial estate. It does have a gym though. I doubt you'd like it somehow. Unless you're a chav/scruff trying to look hard with a muscle shirt and the best physique illegal steroids can provide. The original owners have been done a few times but it keeps reopening.

redvee

The cyclists in my place have lockers twice the size of others who drive or walk but wet kit get hung to dry wherever there is space or hooks when it rains which for me is the shower cubicle facing my locker that nobody uses. To supplement the single hook I have a couple of suction hooks that are on the wall of the cubicle but not when I arrived in wet kit today. Somebody from the day shift was using them to hang their wet weather kit on, or they were till I found my hooks and put them back where they should be.

A rant at myself on the ride home. Riding through central Brizzle at 20 mph, not holding up the traffic and the car behind uses the horn to tell me there's something wrong with my bike I guess so I grab the brakes and stop a little quickly which doesn't go down to well with the driver.

timothyw

Meh, freehub failure on the way in, had to walk/freewheel the last third.

Wouldn't be so annoying but took that wheel in for a hub service at the LBS a fortnight ago.

rick_chasey

Turns out it's virtually impossible to by separate cranks for Ultegra 6700.

Looking to replace my 170mm cranks with 165mm, to match my midget legs.

Seems the only option is to buy the full set with the chain rings.

Grrr.

DrLex

Unless the BCD is different on the hobbit version, can't you sell on the 'rings?

porlyworly

So it turns out my backup inner tube has a removable core, which for some unbeknownst reason is not tightened up out of the box. Puncture this morning, check the tyre and remove the offending flint then try swapping the tube out for the backup. Screw the Lezyne pressure drive pump on and pump tyre up, so far so good, try to unscrew pump and the f****ng core comes out with it. Repeatedly. FML

asprilla

PorlyWorly wrote:

So it turns out my backup inner tube has a removable core, which for some unbeknownst reason is not tightened up out of the box. Puncture this morning, check the tyre and remove the offending flint then try swapping the tube out for the backup. Screw the Lezyne pressure drive pump on and pump tyre up, so far so good, try to unscrew pump and the f****ng core comes out with it. Repeatedly. FML

Not uncommon I'm afraid. I thread lock my valve cores now.

hopkinb

Thought I'd lost a bit of weight, bought 2 castelli jerseys in L rather than XL.

I haven't lost any weight.... :oops:

imatfaal

hopkinb wrote:

Thought I'd lost a bit of weight, bought 2 castelli jerseys in L rather than XL.

I haven't lost any weight.... :oops:

Now you have to lose the weight - good motivation

hopkinb

Nah, sending back for exchange to XL...

rower63

DrLex wrote:

Unless the BCD is different on the hobbit version, can't you sell on the 'rings?

this - surely new rings are always in demand?

redvee

hopkinb wrote:

Nah, sending back for exchange to XL...

Had similar when I bought my latest Gabba2, checked the size of the older Cannondale logo'd one and ordered the same but the new one was too tight yet the old was fitted me fine so now have an L and XL Gabba2.

veronese68

In a fit of stupidity and encouraged by CJCP I entered the Battle on the Beach on Jan 1st thinking it would give me some motivation to get out on the bike more and get my fitness up by the end of March. Persistent lurgy meant I didn't get out on the bike much at all. Then some time back work asked me to go to Denmark to give technical support to a customer at a show. I had to go really so agreed to it and they agreed to pay the entry fee for me. As the lurgy has persisted until recently when I got put on antibiotics by the quack I still haven't been riding, but there was no pressure now. I'm not coughing much now, but still feel really run down and permanently knackered. I must say I really wasn't looking forward to going to Denmark.
The trip is off, the customer has decided he's not doing the show. Everything has been booked and paid for weeks ago, so in theory I could go to Wales. But I'm desperately unfit and have pretty much forgotten how to ride a bike. Neither of my bikes are ready to go without a fair amount of fettling to get them set up for it. If I went I'd be riding round at the back holding everyone up. Things aren't great at home as wife is really fretting about our daughter who has been unwell for over a year now. So I still can't really go as it wouldn't be right, but my good excuse has been taken away from me. FFS!

hopkinb

Veronese68 wrote:

In a fit of stupidity and encouraged by CJCP I entered the Battle on the Beach on Jan 1st thinking it would give me some motivation to get out on the bike more and get my fitness up by the end of March. Persistent lurgy meant I didn't get out on the bike much at all. Then some time back work asked me to go to Denmark to give technical support to a customer at a show. I had to go really so agreed to it and they agreed to pay the entry fee for me. As the lurgy has persisted until recently when I got put on antibiotics by the quack I still haven't been riding, but there was no pressure now. I'm not coughing much now, but still feel really run down and permanently knackered. I must say I really wasn't looking forward to going to Denmark.
The trip is off, the customer has decided he's not doing the show. Everything has been booked and paid for weeks ago, so in theory I could go to Wales. But I'm desperately unfit and have pretty much forgotten how to ride a bike. Neither of my bikes are ready to go without a fair amount of fettling to get them set up for it. If I went I'd be riding round at the back holding everyone up. Things aren't great at home as wife is really fretting about our daughter who has been unwell for over a year now. So I still can't really go as it wouldn't be right, but my good excuse has been taken away from me. FFS!

Look after your health and your family. A race is just a race, and if you're not in the right mindset or fit enough, you'll hate it. You can do it another year.

veronese68

hopkinb wrote:

Look after your health and your family. A race is just a race, and if you're not in the right mindset or fit enough, you'll hate it. You can do it another year.

All true, but blaming someone else was quite convenient. Bloody rude of him to change his mind so late as well, even if I am happy not to be going.

dinyull

The chuffing ad's at the top of this site. By the time they've loaded up the screen has skipped down and I've clicked on the ad instead of what I was trying to choose. Either sh*te server or clever server trying to generate clicks.

Jal_

Dinyull wrote:

The chuffing ad's at the top of this site. By the time they've loaded up the screen has skipped down and I've clicked on the ad instead of what I was trying to choose. Either sh*te server or clever server trying to generate clicks.

Also the 'sponsored content' at the bottom of the page. The headlines seem to always be horrendous clickbaity stuff from The Express or Mail, neither of which I have any interest in reading.

wolfsbane2k

Chest infection.
No viable PT to work.
Taxi's/PHV cost an arm and a leg.